November 29, 2022
UPDATE
Apple declares the 2022 Apple Podcasts Award winner
Slate’s narrative nonfiction sequence Sluggish Burn honored for contemporary season protecting Roe v. Wade
Apple immediately introduced the Apple Podcasts Award honoring a Present of the 12 months and its crew for excellent high quality, innovation, and influence. Impressed by the signature app icon, the Apple Podcasts Award represents Apple’s decades-long dedication to supporting creators as they share their voices with the world and serving to listeners to find the perfect podcasts.
The recipient of the Apple Podcasts Award is Slate’s critically acclaimed narrative historical past sequence, Sluggish Burn, for its newest season, Roe v. Wade, hosted by Slate govt editor Susan Matthews. Revealed all through June 2022, the four-episode season explores the occasions main as much as the landmark 1973 Supreme Court docket resolution, providing listeners an in-depth perspective on this common and well timed human rights difficulty.
“Apple Podcasts is the place customers uncover new exhibits, take pleasure in their favorites, unlock premium listening experiences, and help the creators who make them potential,” mentioned Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vp of Apple Music and Beats. “Podcasting performs an essential position in our lives — serving to us keep knowledgeable, maintain entertained, and get impressed — and we’re happy to honor the Slate crew with this recognition.”
“I needed to make this sequence as a result of I used to be actually discouraged by how polarized and caught the dialog round abortion was, and it appeared extremely well timed and essential,” mentioned host Susan Matthews. “We got down to inform this story in a approach that helped increase and problem what folks understood about this topic. We determined the way in which to method this season was to return to the early ‘70s, when the abortion debate was nonetheless up within the air and your celebration affiliation didn’t correlate together with your views on the problem. I’m so honored that Apple Podcasts noticed one thing particular on this season. I hope folks come to it with an open and curious thoughts, and admire listening to it as a lot as I did making it.”
Starting immediately, customers may also discover six Sluggish Burn Extras — brand-new episodes accessible without cost completely on Apple Podcasts that present new views and deeper insights. Listeners can hear in regards to the making of Sluggish Burn: Roe v. Wade, never-before-heard private tales, prolonged follow-up interviews with characters from the sequence, and a roundtable dialog in regards to the evolution of the Supreme Court docket that includes Slate’s authorized consultants.
Sluggish Burn is among the all-time hottest exhibits on Apple Podcasts. The present’s first two seasons are hosted by Leon Neyfakh and canopy the Watergate and Clinton-Lewinsky scandals, respectively. Extra seasons cowl the inventive lives and tragic deaths of two of the world’s most well-known rappers, the Infamous B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, in addition to the LA riots (each hosted by Joel Anderson); David Duke’s rise to energy and prominence (hosted by Josh Levin); and the street to the Iraq Struggle (hosted by Noreen Malone). All seven seasons can be found without cost on Apple Podcasts.
Sluggish Burn host Susan Matthews and Derek John, Slate’s govt producer of narrative podcasts, spoke with Apple Podcasts about how they landed on Roe v. Wade for the most recent season, what they realized in the middle of reporting the sequence, how listeners have responded, and the podcasts which have moved and impressed them.
Pricing and Availability
- Apple Podcasts is out there without cost in 175 international locations and areas on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod and HomePod mini, CarPlay, iTunes on Home windows, Amazon Alexa, and different sensible audio system and automobile programs.
- Sluggish Burn is out there without cost in 175 international locations and areas. Slate Plus is out there on Apple Podcasts in 170 international locations and areas for $9.99 (US) per thirty days or, for a restricted time, $99.99 (US) per 12 months with a 14-day free trial.
- All Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, together with Slate Plus, could be shared with as much as 5 different members of the family at no further value utilizing Household Sharing.
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